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nýgörfing

nafnorðkvenkynný-görfing
a novelty, innovation, 1347, 76.
2. a term, a new trope or figure of speech, of circumlocutions not founded on ancient usage or old tales, but drawn from the imagination of the poet; thus, calling the tears the ‘rain, shower, pearls of the eyes’ would be ‘nýgörving,’ as also calling the sword a ‘snake,’ the sheath its ‘slough,’ () 123; skjöldr er land vápnanna, en vápn er hagl eða regn þess lands ef nygörfingum er ort, 90.II. in a bad sense, whence ný-görfingr, of a person, an innovator, Pál Skyr. passim; of a thing, new-fangledness, novelty, nýgörfings-ligr, new-fangled.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • gramm.grammar.
  • esp.especially.
  • poët.poetically.
  • mythol.mythology, mythologically.
  • mod.modern.
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
  • Ann.Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
  • Fs.Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
  • EddaEdda. (C. I.)
  • Ht.Hátta-tal. (C. I.)
  • Vídal.Vídalíns-Postilla.